ROADIE - A True Story (at least the parts I remember) by Karl Kuenning RFL

Author:Karl Kuenning RFL
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

We cleared customs and got to the gig on time. The load in at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre went better than could be expected. For the first time in a week we had about two hours to kill, time for a shower! Joe stood at the door to the motorhome and advised me that if I didn’t fix the motorhome I’d be walking to Seattle. I became Mr. Goodwrench.

I assessed the damage which really wasn’t too bad considering the violent impact. The offending hole was only about an inch square located in a 4” PVC pipe. I asked a stage hand if there was a plumbing store anywhere near the gig, There were no Handy Dan’s or Home Depots back then but I did find a neighborhood hardware store about 3 blocks away. I figured if I bought a new piece of PVC pipe I could glue it into place replacing the old one. As I was looking at the sizes of pipe available a brainstorm came to me. I bought a one foot piece of pipe one size too big (4½“) and a bottle of all weather cement. Then I talked the store into cutting the piece in half lengthwise. I then glued the half pipe over the top of the broken and slightly smaller pipe, using a liberal amount of glue. It worked!, and it only cost me a few bucks. I was out of the “dog house” (or is that the “motor-dog house”?). Anyway we were on to Seattle, toilet in tact. For those of you in Seattle can you guess the name of the Theatre? That’s right, another Paramount. I had an hour or so before the show and had a long talk with Roger McGuinn over dinner prior to the show. Like the conversation a week or so earlier with Bonnie, it was about nothing specific or important. We did the show, which I generally remember to be one of the best of the tour, and headed to Medford. It was soon to be “D-day” for Mary Jo. Jamie was becoming bored, and was losing the contest to Steve, due to Mary Jo’s clinging. As covered in a previous chapter, we left the Armory, and left Mary Jo behind. We headed to the Civic Auditorium in Redding. Northern California is breath-taking, someday I may move there. After that show we had a five hour drive to Santa Cruz and a day off. We played the Delmar Theatre. Tom Petty had played here recently and a local artist had painted the Heartbreakers logo (off their debut album cover) on the wall near the load in door. The tour was almost over, and I was ready to go home. We had this show and one in Las Vegas, then home. I had a girlfriend waiting for me (I thought) back in Rochester, and I had made it through the entire tour without doing any drugs. Now drugs were not completely unknown to me, I had smoked some pot and hashish while in college, but I had always resisted coke and harder drugs.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.